Task(2): Writing a letter to explain cultural misunderstandings: Skills building 3特级教师教学实录

Title

：Module 6 Unit 3 Understanding each other Task 2

Analysis of learners ：

The learners are senior two students, most of whom know nothing about taboos , so they are eager to learn taboos in different cultures to avoid the embarrassment and misunderstanding when communicate with foreigners. Teaching aims ：

At the end of this class, students will be able to:

Knowledge objectives:

Have a better understanding of taboos and traditions. Ability objective:

1.

Know how to deal with taboos and traditions. 2.

Learn to talk about different taboos and traditions.

Emotional objective: Form positive attitudes towards taboos and traditions .

Important points & difficult points: 1.

Know how to deal with taboos and traditions. 2.

Learn to talk about different taboos and traditions.

Teaching procedures: Step1: Video clip watching as lead-in

(Task purpose: To arouse students’ interest in the cultural differences.) Play a short video to the students to show different ways of greeting. Questions: Which country do these ways of greeting probably come from?

T: Why are there so many differences in greeting among countries?

Because there are different traditions. Step 2:

Reading Zone

(Task purpose: To get the students get the general and detailed information of the passage.)

Please read the passage as quickly as possible to find the answers to the following questions. 1.

What is taboo? What does it include? A taboo is a social action that is not allowed.

Taboos include eating certain foods, relations between people, body language and gestures. 2.

Why don’t Indians shake hands with left hands? It’s rude to shake hand with left hands.

3.

Can Indians eat beef in India? Why? No, because beef is not allowed to eat because of their religion. 4.

How did Japanese deal with business card when receiving it?

They look at them before putting them into pocket.

(People dislike it when people do not look at the cards.)

Useful Sentence patterns expressing traditions and taboos 1. It is rude to do sth…

2. They dislike it when people…

3. They feel uncomfortable/ offended when people…

4. Doing sth. is (not) allowed …

Practice

Rewrite the sentence, using as many sentence patterns as possible.

Beef is not allowed to eat because of their religion in India. Play a little game to consolidate the language patterns. Try your luck. 5 points for each sentence patterns. Step3

Presentation

A mini sharing session(分享会) will be held about traditions and taboos.

Work with your group members and present it to us. One host/hostess: gives the introduction and help the session go smoothly; Several sharers: Each sharer presents at least one tradition or taboo; Use as many sentence patterns learnt in this class as possible.

Your presentation may begin like this

China is a country with a long history. So there are many things we Chinese people should (not ) do. For example …

Step 4

Summary (Task purpose: The brief summary can make students recall the key points in this lesson and the homework is a further consolidation.) There are so many different traditions and taboos. To avoid embarrassment

and misunderstanding, we should understand and respect traditions and taboos.

Step 5

Homework 1. Review what we have leant today. 2. Search for more taboos and traditions.

Blackboard design

Module 6 Unit 3 Understanding each other Task

1. It is rude/polite to do sth…

2. They dislike it when people…

3. They feel uncomfortable/ offended when people…

4. Doing sth. is (not) allowed …

When in Rome, do as Romans do.